Comment by macintux

I discovered Erlang from Bruce Tate's book[0] and it was such an obviously pragmatic and interesting language that I started participating in the Twitter Erlang community, discovered Basho was using it for Riak and looking for a tech evangelist in the Midwest, and thus began my all-time favorite job.

I'm still more of a infrastructure guy than a software developer, but working with such incredibly smart people was a delight. Basho was good at hiring people who could learn Erlang (and, perhaps unsurprisingly, was almost entirely remote).

[0]: https://pragprog.com/titles/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-...